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Hey, good luck with it! I'm thinking maybe I'm just wired differently. If I have a side project or hobby I still want to feel maybe not success but a sense of c
by Numberwang 9y ago
Hey, good luck with it! I'm thinking maybe I'm just wired differently. If I have a side project or hobby I still want to feel maybe not success but a sense of completion.
An OS project I suspect will always end when you no longer have time for it or are stuck somewhere. I'd be annoyed by that.
- bradyd 9y ago@skocznymroczny was actually quoting a post from Linus Torvalds when he first released Linux.
- garfij 9y agoIt might have been helpful for GP to note that the quote comes from Linus Torvalds. He said it while he was first developing Linux
- AdamJacobMuller 9y agoYour reply, while I'm sure it is genuine, couldn't be more on-point by being more wrong. You really don't know, and cannot know, where the next Linux is going to come from. I don't know if this will be it, just by considering probabilities, it probably won't be, but it could. Even at the worst case, the author of a project like this is going to learn A LOT from it, and the people who read through the source code are also going to learn a lot. Writing an OS in a higher-level language absolutely is beneficial to people who want to learn more about how hardware works and interacts with the OS, without needing to delve into something as complex as the Linux/BSD kernels. At a minimum, I think projects like this directly create contributions to other "real" kernels by teaching developers how to do kernel/OS programming.